Tourism Included

Some of the tourism high lights of your Southern Africa class include:

• Guided tour of the World Heritage listed site of Robben Island where Nelson Mandela was a political prisoner during the Apartheid era. Your tour will be conducted by an ex-prisoner & includes ferry ride across Table Bay, Bus Tour of the island, and walking jail tour with a viewing of Mandela's old jail cell (3.5 hours)
• Cape Town City Highlights Bus Tour including the suburb of Bo-Kaap and stop at Bo-Kaap Museum plus additional sites
• Table Mountain Cable Car Ride: Table Mountain is one of the world's greatest landmarks and towers 3,600 feet above the city of Cape Town, you'll ride a cable car and enjoy fantastic views of Cape Town
• Walking Tour of District Six which was a vibrant mixed race area next to the City Centre from the 1900s to 1960s. The Apartheid government declared the area for whites only in 1966 and proceeded to remove some 50,000 people to the Cape Flats townships on the other side of Table Mountain. Much history remains
• Township Experience Tour: Led by residents of the townships, this tour has received numerous tourism awards. Discover how the squalor and the deprivation of the townships of a disadvantaged community is gradually being transformed and provided with modern schools, clinics, electricity, clean water, liveable homes and sport facilities
• Cape Peninsula Tour and Penguin Colony: See Hout Bay, Simonstown, Chapman's Peak, Twelve Apostles, and Cape Point. You'll see penguins, ostrich, seal and baboons by the roadside (full day tour)
• Have a traditional South African braai (barbeque) and meet some locals
• Taste South African wine and tour two world class wineries. The South African Wine Industry is 325 years old, making it the oldest anywhere outside of Europe.
• Victoria Falls: the World's largest waterfall, aptly coined "the smoke that thunders". 
• Sunset Zambezi River Cruise & Dinner onboard the African Queen: Enjoy complimentary cocktails & snacks while viewing wildlife by the water's edge
• Chobe National Park: One of the largest wild game concentrations in Africa and home to the world's largest concentration of elephants (apprx 120,000). Your Safari includes a cruise down the Chobe River where you'll see animals drinking along the shore and then enjoy a "game drive" back. Likely sightings include hippopotamus, antelope, water buffalo, giraffe & lions. Breakfast & Lunch included (full day tour)
• PLUS A WHOLE LOT MORE! ... Contact us for more detailed information on this exciting class.